Welded rail-anchor



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APPLICATION `FILED MAY 3, 1921.

Bissued une 21, 1921. 15,131

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BENJAMN' WOLHUPTER, 0F NEW ROCHELLE, NEW YORK.

WELDED RAIL-ANCHOR.

i Specification of Reissued Letters Patent. Reissued une 21, 1921.

Original No. 1,359,854, dated November 23, 1920, Serial No. 404,427, led August 18, 1920. Application for reissue filed May 3, 1921.

To all 'whom t 'may concer/rt Be it known that I, BENJAMIN WOLHAUP- TER, a citizen of the UnitedStates, residing at New Rochelle, Westchester county, State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Welded Rail-Anchors; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

This invention relates to rail anchors of the type which are welded directly to the rail and are adapted to engage an abutment provided either by the tie or tie plate to check or prevent longitudinal creeping of the rails. p

Primarily, the invention has for its object the provision of a rail anchor which may be cheaply made and applied, while at the same time possessing the capabilitiy of meeting all of the practical requirements for a rail anchor and embodyin the desirable feature of having'rthe adaptaility of being readily and quickly detached or removed from the rail by a blow of a railroad spike maul or 'equivalent tool.

Another object of practical importance is to provide a rail anchor which may be constructed from simple sections or pieces of rolled steel in common use thereby entirely obviating the expense, time and labor incident to the processes of molding, casting, bending or rolling which are commonly emloyed in the manufacture of devices of this Eind. To these ends the invention has for its general object the construction of a rail anchor of eXtremesimpli-cit; and utilizing a minimum amount and weig t of metal, and yet having the anchor in such form and arrangement as to permit it to be securely fastened to the rail by simple welds, sufficiently strong in the aggregate to eifectually resist the creeping thrust of the rail while so disposed as to premit the anchor to be displaced or stripped from the rail by a hammer blow.

Withv these and further objects in view which will be apparent to those familiar with the art the invention consists in the novel features of improvement hereinafter more fully described illustrated and claimed. Though susce tible of structural modification certain preferred and practical embodi- `cured to the adjacent edges of Serial No. 466,595.

mentsl of the device are shown in theaccompanying drawings in which:-

Figure l is a perspective View of a primary form of the rail anchor in its applied position on the rail base.

Fig. 2 is asectional plan view of the structure shown in Fig. 1.

F ig. 3 is a side view of the rail vshowing fille apchor applied in the manner shown in Fig. 4, is a view similar to Fig. 1 illustrating a modification that may be resorted to in order to obtain a strong weld at each welding point.

lLike references designate corresponding parts throughout the several figures of the drawings,l

As above indicated the primary feature of this invention resides in the use of a simple form of anchoring member which ma .be termed a check bar designated by the numeral l and adapted to be arranged beneath the rail base and to extend transversely across the same. This check bar preferably consists of a suitable. length of an ordinary section o-f rolled steel in common use, and as shown may be a simple fiat bar which is placed beneath and against the rail base and which is slightly longer than the width of the rail base so as to havev projecting end portions 2 constituting fastening lips sethe rail flange by means of welds-3.

The proj ectingen'd portions 2 of the check bar 1 combine 'with the adjacent edges of the rail flange to provide well defined welding grooves or corners 4 in `wliichthe welds 3 are built up. These welds maybe formed in any suitable manner but preferabl7 by the oxyacetelene torch method and emp oyment of the steel welding pencil or rod which builds up a separate body of metal between the two parts to be united, although it will be understood that I do not limit my invention to such method or any particular means of producing the welds 3 which rigidly and securely fastens the check bar to the rail anges. y

It will be further observed in connection with the welds 3 that at each projecting end 2 of the bar these welds are preferably spaced apart, and on the exposed part of the bar end 2 between th@ Wlds 3 a hammer blow Amay be directed to disengageand strip the anchor: from the rail without injury thereto whenever it is necessary to remove the anchor in the resetting or reusing of the rail. While vthe individual welds 3 permit of this function of readily removing the anchor from the rail, it will be understood that several welds in the aggregate are sufliciently strong" -to elfectually resist the Jcreeping force of therail.V

In the modified form of the invention suggested in Fig. 4c the upper surfaces of vthe;projecting endsor lips 2 of the check bar may be downwardly and outwardlybev- .eled as indicated at 5 thus permitting the metalof the welds -3 extending between the underside of the rail flanges and the upper side of the check bar thereby more securely fastening the bar to the rail flange at each welding location. l

In its'preferred use the check bar 4 is adapted to engage against the abutment provided by the tie plate -6 and the tie 7 but it will ofcourse be understood that my invention is not limited tothe abutment provided by the tie plate as the check bar may be made of material sufliciently deep so that it will engage the tie as the abutment surface.

From the foregoing it is thought that the construction, action and many advantages of the herein described rail anchor will be readily apparent without further descrip tion and it will be'understood that various changes in-the form, proportion and minor details of the construction may be resorted to without departing from the spirit or sacrificing any of the advantages of the invention.

I claim:

1. A rail anchor consisting of a bar extending across the rail base and welded to the edges of the rail flanges.

2..Arai1 anchor Iconsisting of a bar eX- tending across the rail base and having projecting ends welded to the edges of the rail flanges.

3. A rail anchor consisting of a bar extending across the rail base and having ends projecting beyond the edges of the rail flanges and welded connections between said rojecting ends and the edges of the rail anges.

4. A rail anchor consisting of a single bar extending across the rail base and welded at its ends to the edges of the rail flanges. 4

5. A rail anchor consisting of a single 7. A rail anchor consisting of a single flat bar extending across the rail base and hav ing spaced weldedconnections between its ends and the edges of the rail flanges.

8. A rail anchor consisting of a bar ex tending across the rail base, and welded connections extending between the under and .outer edges of the rail flanges and the under portions of said bar.

9. A rail anchor consisting of a bar extendmg across the rail base and provlded 4with projecting beveled end portions7 andA welds between the beveled portions of the bar and the outer edge and under surfaces of the rail flanges.

10. A rail anchor consisting of a body part extending across the rail base and welded to both flanges.

ll. A rail anchor consisting of a. body part extending across the rail base tand.

welded to the edges of both flanges.

12. A rail anchor consisting of a body part extending across the rail base and fillet welded to the edges of both flanges.

13. In a rail anchor, the combination with the rail and a suitable abutment, of a body extending across the rail base and welded to the edges of the rail flanges of 

